Dyspnea Mechanisms, Measurement, and Management, Third Edition

With the high prevalence of chronic pulmonary diseases, including asthma, COPD, and interstitial lung disease, physicians need to recognize the cause of dyspnea and know how to treat it so that patients can cope effectively with this distressing symptom. Detailing recent developments and treatment methods, this revised and updated third edition of Dyspnea: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Management includes new chapters on gender-based differences in dyspnea and explores guidelines for treating the condition in challenging special populations, including in the aged, in pregnancy and obesity, and in palliative care settings. With three sections spanning the mechanisms of dyspnea, measurement and assessment strategies, and management techniques, this book provides pulmonologists and other healthcare professionals the vital information needed to understand this complex symptom.

Mechanisms of Dyspnea Neurobiology of Dyspnea: An Overview; Donald A. Mahler and Denis E. O’Donnell Neuroimaging of Dyspnea; Karleyton C. Evans and Robert B. Banzett Aging and Sex Differences; Jordan A. Guenette and Dennis Jensen Pregnancy/Obesity; Dennis Jensen and Denis E. O’Donnell Mechanisms of Dyspnea during Exercise in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Denis E. O’Donnell and Katherine A. Webb Dyspnea in Asthma and Restrictive Lung Disease; Pierantonio Laveneziana and Giorgio Scano Measurement and Assessment Domains of Dyspnea Measurement; Mark B. Parshall and Richard M. Schwartzstein Longitudinal Changes in Dyspnea; Toru Oga and Koichi Nishimura Measurement of Dyspnea in Clinical Trials; Asha Hareendran and Nancy Kline Leidy Anxiety, Depression, and Panic; Andreas von Leupoldt, Omer Van den Bergh, and Paul W. Davenport Chronic Dyspnea; Alex H. Gifford and Donald A. Mahler Management Effect of Bronchodilators and Inhaled Corticosteroids on Dyspnea in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Denis E. O’Donnell, Katherine A. Webb, and Donald A. Mahler Oxygen; Deborah Casey and Roger Goldstein Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Dyspnea; Suzanne Lareau, Paula Meek, and Richard ZuWallack Other Treatments for Dyspnea; Donald A. Mahler Palliative Care; Amy P. Abernethy and David C. Currow

Donald A. Mahler, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Denis E. O’Donnell, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada